Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Federal Government Legislative Data/Agency List

One of several types of data that Cato tags in legislation is the names of agencies, bureaus, and other entities. With this, it is possible to systematically tabulate how many times a given bill refers to a particular agency. If a bill has an article on Wikipedia, and if that bill refers to an agency many times, that agency should be mentioned somewhere in the article -- perhaps in a See also section or as a category.

The table below indicates the mapping between the name that Cato uses to refer to agencies and the corresponding Wikipedia article and category. This, combined with a mapping between bill names and article names, will make it possible to write a script which automagically adds references to relevant agencies to bill articles.

As of 18 March 2013, there are categories of legislation based on the topics they relate to, such as firearms and bankruptcy. A full list can be found here. There does not appear to be a set of categories relating bills to agencies, such as Category:United States Department of Labor legislation. It might make sense to create these as subcategories of the categories listed below.